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      The Human Resources Manager

      Released Mar 4, 2011 1h 43m Drama List
      75% 32 Reviews Tomatometer 62% 250+ Ratings Audience Score The manager of a huge bakery tries to save the reputation of the business by preventing the publishing of an article. Read More Read Less

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      Rachel Saslow Washington Post If director Eran Riklis's intention is to show the blossoming humanity, so to speak, of a human resources manager, the transformation is much too subtle to work. Rated: 1/4 Apr 29, 2011 Full Review Joe Williams St. Louis Post-Dispatch Even with incidents involving drunken locals, an underground bunker and a decommissioned tank, the film doesn't build the comic momentum of good intentions hurtling downhill in a strange land. Rated: 2/4 Apr 22, 2011 Full Review John Hartl Seattle Times Yehoshua and Riklis are sometimes better at setting things up than following through, but the result suggests a novelistic density. Rated: 3/4 Mar 24, 2011 Full Review Kelly Jane Torrance Washington Examiner [It's a] moving, quiet film. Rated: 3/5 Jan 8, 2019 Full Review CJ Johnson Film Mafia The long, long journey that makes up the bulk of the film is bizarrely undramatic. Rated: 2.5/5 Jul 13, 2011 Full Review Simon Weaving Screenwize A sometimes serious, sometimes quirky road movie sees an HR Manager travel from Jerusalem to Romania with a dead body, a collection of strange characters, and a slowly developing conscience about the fate of the dead. Rated: 3.5/5 Jun 16, 2011 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member Just watched it. Like it alot. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Audience Member The Human Resources Manager of Israel's largest industrial bakery has to travel to Romania when an employee of theirs is killed in a terrorist attack, creating a public relations nightmare when the company does not notice her absence for a week. He brings her body to her home town to bring it to her family and make amends. Facing a series of setbacks, he gradually snaps out of his own depression. A lightly comic human drama that's largely fine without ever elevating itself to anything special. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member Road movie sobre el sentido de nacionalidad, con personajes interesantes, humor, un buen guión y una inspirada dirección de fotografía. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Audience Member An Israeli drama with satirical undertones, THE HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER is an allegorical exploration of one uncompromising man's attempt at embracing humanity through a series of events that sends him off to an unnamed Eastern Bloc country, but really Romania, to appease the family of a foreign worker killed by a suicide bomber. THRM observantly combines comedy and pathos to achieve its somewhat successful final results. Director Riklis who specializes in probing studies of contrasting cultures at odds mostly built around borders (LEMON TREE & THE SYRIAN BRIDE) here raises the bar by taking his central character on a reluctantly self-fulfilling mission to a foreign land. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Un filme nada especial que nos demuestra la diversidad de la vida y la variedad y diferencia de pensamientos de la gente que la vive. Muestra, además, cómo es que ciertos sucesos pueden cambiar y provocar un intenso giro en la vida de cualquier persona: Un muchacho que se aísla después de la separación de sus padres; una madre que muere, provocando un radical cambio en la manera de pensar de su hijo y su manera de ver la vida; un director de recursos humanos que tras la muerte de la misma mujer, crece como persona. Una película que sirve para pasar el rato, tal vez te haga reflexionar ligeramente, pero no te dejará gran huella. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member Road movie, dramedy espectacular. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Movie Info

      Synopsis The manager of a huge bakery tries to save the reputation of the business by preventing the publishing of an article.
      Director
      Eran Riklis
      Producer
      Leon Edery, Moshe Edery, Ygal Mograbi
      Screenwriter
      Noah Stollman
      Distributor
      Film Movement
      Production Co
      Pallas Film
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      Hebrew
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Mar 4, 2011, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Nov 18, 2016
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $63.7K
      Runtime
      1h 43m
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